The Year of Magical Thinking

MARY BETH FISHER Chicago credits include The Wild Duck, What the Butler Saw, Arcadia, The Glass Menagerie, Travesties, The Importance of Being Earnest (Court Theatre); Frank’s Home, The Clean House, Dinner With Friends, Heartbreak House, The Rose Tattoo, The Guys, Boy Gets Girl, Spinning Into Butter, Design For Living, Light Up the Sky, The Night of the Iguana, Marvin’s Room (Goodman Theatre); Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Dresser, The Memory of Water (Steppenwolf Theatre); Little Dog Laughed, Theatre District (About/Face); My Own Stranger (Writer’s). Her NY credits include Frank’s Home (Playwright’s Horizons); Boy Gets Girl (Drama League Honoree, Lucile Lortel and Drama Desk nominations), The Radical Mystique, By The Sea (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Night of the Iguana (Roundabout); Extremities (Westside Arts); Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? (Promenade). She has worked in regional theatres all over the country, most recently in the world premiere of Richard Nelson’s How Shakespeare Won the West (Huntington Theatre, Boston). Her TV/Film credits include: Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Prison Break, NYPD Blue, Profiler, Early Edition, Turks, To Have & To Hold, Formosa Betrayed, Dragonfly, Trauma, and Safe Storage. Ms. Fisher was recently named an inaugural fellow of The Ten Chimneys’ Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program dedicated to the creation of artist-mentors in the American Theatre.